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Change Drive Letters – Assign a New Drive Letter

March 8, 2011

In Windows you can change drive letters on a drive, a partition, or a volume, as long as it is not holding your system boot files. In this tutorial I will show you how to change drive letters on a hard drive by accessing Disk management. For example you might have two hard drives installed [...]

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Change a partition or hard drive letter in Windows XP

June 1, 2010

Although the drive letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives, every other letter in the alphabet is available to be assigned to the hard drives or partitions in a computer. The main hard drive, by default, is always C drive. When you add more hard drives, partitions, or cd drives, Windows Xp [...]

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How to label a new hard drive or partition and assign a drive letter?

May 28, 2010

When you have installed a new hard drive, in order for your computer to recognize it you may need to label the drive by assigning a drive letter to it. So for example if you have installed a second hard drive into your computer, it may need to be labeled so it can be used [...]

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